Video Age International December 2016

24 Event Planner & Travel News December 2016 V I D E O A G E Regulators: The Public Has To Deal With Airlines’ IT Obsolescence Technical failures have been plaguing the U.S. commercial aviation industry: 24 major disruptions since 2015. Yet, the Department of Transportation has no plans to regulate the industry into technical resiliency. Technical failures have struck all of the largest U.S. airlines at least once in the last two years. Last August, a power outage at Delta grounded for one day 2,660 flights out of the 6,000 scheduled to fly, and the network equipment didn’t switch over to its backup systems. The meltdown raises questions about whether the wave of U.S. airline mergers that created four large carriers controlling 85 percent of U.S. capacity has built companies too large and too reliant on IT systems that date back to the 1990s. Delta’s problems come on the heels of a computer glitch at Southwest Airlines, which caused the cancellation of 2,300 flights over four days. NAB SHOW GIX DECEMBER 7-8 Shanghai, China Tel: (202) 429-5300 Fax: (202) 775-2145 gixshanghai.nabshow.com ASIA TV FORUM DECEMBER 7-9 Republic of Singapore Tel: (65) 6780 4697 Fax: (65) 6588 3798 www.asiatvforum.com VideoAge bonus distribution THE REMAKES MARKET CHINA DECEMBER 12-14 Shenzhen, China Tel: (323) 782-1300 www.theremakesmarket.com NATPE Miami January 17-19. 2017 Miami, U.S. Tel: (310) 453-4440 Fax: (310) 453-5258 www.natpe.com VideoAge bonus distribution Sundance Film Festival January 19-29 Park City, U.S. Tel: (310) 360-1981 Fax: (310) 360-1969 www.sundance.org Berlin Film Festival February 9-19 Berlin, Germany Tel: (49 30) 25920-0 Fax: (49 30) 25920-299 www.berlinale.de MIP-TV April 3-6 Cannes, France Tel.: + 1 (212) 370-7470 Fax: + 1 (212) 370-7471 www.miptv.com VideoAge bonus distribution L.A. Screenings May 16-26 Los Angeles, USA Tel. :+1 (212) 288-3933 Fax: +1 (212) 2883424 www.videoageinternational.net/ l-a-screenings-2017/ VideoAge bonus distribution Dr. HERBERT G. KLOIBER Honoree in the NATPE Miami 2017 Issue International TV Distribution Hall of Fame who built an industry distribution executives Honoring VIDEOAGE‘ s